if youre going to rag on bf one at least use images from the single player campaign. esp when comparing it to another single player game
One thing to note is that you are comparing a multiplayer screenshot which would no doubt have downscaled graphics from the single player to have better performance.
I would mean that screenshots from the campaign would have better elements including more polygon objects compared to the multiplayer maps since it is single player only and thus able to handle better graphics.
So you guys basically adimited that BF's MP doesn't look too hot and that's why you wanna bring up single player? BF1's campaign lasts like 4 hours and saying that it's an afterthought would be an understatement. Looking great in a few moments of the campaign is absolutely not enough when the game doesn't look as good the majority of the time when you actually play it. Battlefont is MP only and that doesn't stop it from looking better than BF1. Oh and don't give me more excuses like "but, but BF1's MP is 64 players!", "but, but BF1's environment is more destructible!!" This thread is about graphics only and none of these factors matter.
But what is there to prove with these shots? Neither is objectively better looking - they are both relatively normal, high resolution shots of two games with very good assets and lighting. In fact, they both run on almost the same game engine. Maybe Mirror's Edge is more to your liking artistically, which is fine, but you can't really put up two shots like that and realistically expect that most people are going to think ME looks leagues better than BF1. Splitting hairs over two very good looking games.
What's to prove? Oh boy. I get the overall art direction of BF1 and the type of look it's going for. When it works it looks fairly good (for example, this shot from the beginning of the campaign)
but most of the time it doesn't. The screenshots I posted are exactly when lighting and shading don't do them any favor, producing a final result that's not even pleasing to look at, let alone being of the best graphics on PC (foliage is bad there too, but I guess TAA is at least partially to blame).
And funny that you mention that ME and BF1 are on the same engine. Out of all 5 Frostbite PC releases this year, BF1 probably only impressed me more than FIFA. Even PvZ GW2 is a more consistent looking game that does a better job at the type of look it's going for.
Also, I never claimed that ME "looks leagues better than" BF1. My post was a response to someone who claimed ME to be the biggest underperformer of the year while BF1 is #2 on his list. The fact that you added "leagues better" yourself suggests that you're not even confident in how BF1 looks yourself and need to move the goalpost to "ME is not leagues better than BF1".
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